Lise Weil, founding editor of Dark Matter Women Witnessing, was founder and editor of the US feminist review Trivia: A Journal of Ideas (1982-1991) and co-founder of its online offshoot Trivia: Voices of Feminism, which she edited through 2011 and which is now archived here. Her essays and literary nonfiction have been published widely in Canada and the U.S. Her memoir, In Search of Pure Lust, appeared in 2018 with She Writes Press in the U.S. and Inanna Press in Canada. She lives in Montreal and, until the college closed last year, taught in Goddard College’s Graduate Institute. www.liseweil.com
Kristin Flyntz (on leave) is the executive director of a local land trust and founder of Storied Oak Studio, LLC. Her work has appeared in Dark Matter: Women Witnessing, Cloud Women’s Quarterly Journal, The Corona Transmissions, and The Pivot: Addressing Global Problems Through Local Action. She lives with her husband and two feline companions in Connecticut, where in this particular season of this particular year, Wild Turkeys, White-tailed Deer and Great Horned Owls are among the local wildlife with whom they share the land.
Gillian Goslinga is a cultural anthropologist, feminist science studies scholar and ethnographic filmmaker. Her first essay for Dark Matter: Women Witnessing in 2015 coincided with the beginning of her healing journey from Lyme, mold neurotoxicity and chronic fatigue syndrome. Her academic essays on gestational surrogacy in the US and spirit possession in South India and her award-winning PhD dissertation The Ethnography of a South Indian God can be found through Google Scholar. Her films The Child The Stork Brought Home (1996) and The Poojari’s Daughter (2006) are at www.der.org. Gillian lives in Arizona with her horse Spirit Feather.
Anne Bergeron’s poems and essays appear in Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment, The Hopper, About Place, Eastern Iowa Review, The Calendula Review, The Dark Mountain Project, The Fourth River, and multiple issues of Blueline Magazine. She is a contributing writer for Dark Matter: Women Witnessing, and an editor for that journal’s 2025 anthology, Dreams Before Extinction. Anne is the 2023 solo finalist for the Barry Lopez Creative Nonfiction Award at Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, an alumna of the Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference, and has work forthcoming in Caitlin Press’s Sublime: Poems for Vanishing Ice. Visit her at annebergeronvt.com
Passionate about the relationship between people and place, and the possibilities literature holds for restoration, Sharon English is the author of the eco-themed novel Night in the World, and the story collections Zero Gravity and Uncomfortably Numb. A long-time writing teacher, mentor, and editor, Sharon teaches creative writing in the community and at the University of Toronto, where she is Assistant Professor, Writing & Rhetoric program. Originally from London, Ontario, she now resides much of the year in rural Nova Scotia, which she writes about here: https://sharonenglish.substack.com/. http://www.sharonenglish.net/
Diane Raptosh’s collection American Amnesiac (Etruscan Press) was longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award (poetry). She is the recipient of three literature fellowships (Idaho Arts Commission) as well as an Alexa Rose Foundation Grant. The winner of Idaho Governor’s Arts Award in Excellence (2018), she was Boise’s Poet Laureate (2013) and Idaho’s Writer-in-Residence (2013-2016). Her ninth collection, I Eric America, was published in 2024 (Etruscan Press). She teaches literature and creative writing as well as courses for the criminology program at the College of at the College of Idaho. www.dianeraptosh.com